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Quote[/b] (Trent @ Feb. 10 2006,12:48)]You know that fella from up in your neck of the woods has got it in TC, and has sold the edwardsiana culture to other sources.

thats good but i wonder when they will be ready to come out on the market. they will for sure be expensive at first but then will decrease in time due to the availability and competition between vendors.

Quote[/b] (SydneyNeps @ Feb. 09 2006,10:58)]Just as long as you all realise that they are from illegally collected material. Edwardsiana is in a part of the National Park where it is illegal to enter without a permit, and illegal to collect.

And again most people don't care about poaching as long as it happens far away. Nearly all commercially available adult tuberous drosera are poached and so are these fine Nepenthes.

I don't recall anyone saying they were poached in this thread, so that's sort of new information for some of us. It begs the question, however, as to why there aren't legitimate N. edwardsiana in cultivation? Wouldn't a select few TC specimens alleviate the pressure to poach?

It seems that in the case of Sarracenia, there are legitimate ways to get pretty much any of them, and my guess is that the commercial availability has reduced greatly the pressure to poach.

And if poached, and proagated and those are propagated...when do they leave the black market and enter the white?
Somebody pointed out to me that all green S. jonesii are from orignal poached material, but many growers have material derived from that collection.